Revision is the world leader in military protective eyewear solutions. With over 8 million pairs of eyewear delivered around the globe, we are proven solution providers. With new ownership, we are focusing all our attention on eyewear. Revision is a dynamic, innovative and rapidly growing company. We need more quality people with big ambitious ideas to join our team.
PRIMARY EMPLOYMENT OBJECTIVES
Responsible for primary revenue generation within the active Army and Army National Guard market space. From lead generation to close, this position will be 100% focused on selling Revision’s commercial off the shelf products and developing business within the defined space. The Outside Sales Rep will not only be expected to capture existing business directly with end-users, but also be the key point of contact, provide customer support, sales acumen, technical assistance and general relationship management, as well as generating new business.
SPECIFIC ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
· The Outside Sales Rep will work closely with Sales, Marketing and Product to intensify and grow the total revenue for the customer base within their functional area of responsibility.
• Interface with high level military leaders and senior NCO’s at installations and States to achieve awareness for company, products and to develop the rapport to create outstanding sales results.
• Brief and inform and sell Revision COTS items to CIF Managers, senior leaders and supply personnel at the Corps, Division and Brigade level.
• Ability to sell consultatively and help solve customer’s problems, identifying and resolving any specific customer concerns.
• Maintain accurate records of all sales and prospecting activities including sales calls, presentations, closed sales, and follow-up activities within assigned market space, including the use of SalesForce to maintain accurate record of opportunities generated.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Sales or Marketing or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• 4-6 years of proven sales history in sales to the Army, National Guard and other military branches preferred.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Former Senior level Military or law enforcement background is preferred.
• Position is remote-based. Requires 50% overnight travel.
• Organized and excellent verbal and written communication skills, are critical.
· Ability to work independently and as a team member to accomplish objectives with effective organizational skills that support corporate goals.
Fountain Valley, CA—SureFire, LLC, manufacturer of the world’s finest—and most innovative—illumination tools and tactical products is proud to announce the new SureFire Stiletto® Pro is in stock and shipping.
A sleek, radically shaped pint-sized powerhouse that takes the Stiletto’s already legendary performance to the next level, the Stiletto Pro features an all-new aerospace aluminum body with Mil-Spec hard anodizing for tremendous durability. The Stiletto Pro also delivers phenomenal performance to match its cutting-edge form factor. Utilizing a new proprietary MaxVision Beam® reflector, it provides 1,000 lumens in high-output mode. This increased output combined with the new reflector results in a 233% increase in candela, which equates to an 82% increase in distance performance! The Stiletto Pro also offers the added versatility of a 300-lumen medium output and a 25-lumen low output to suit a variety of tasks. Lastly, the Stiletto Pro has a Melonite®-coated, reversible heavy-duty spring steel pocket clip which allows for bezel-up or bezel-down carry.
Power is the key, and SureFire’s trademark dependable switching adds to the Stiletto Pro’s tremendous versatility. Featuring the same primary switch as the Stiletto, it can be easily programmed to activate the three light levels from low to high or vice versa, while the tactical tail switch always provides instant access to full power with a single press. The tactical tail switch can be programmed either to function as a constant on/off switch or as a momentary switch that turns off when the switch is released. In the momentary mode, press three times and hold to unleash a strobe feature that’s useful for disorienting the night-adapted vision of any attacker.
Fitting comfortably in any pocket, the Stiletto Pro can be drawn like a knife and activated with ease. With an IPX7 waterproof rating, it can withstand being submerged in 1 meter of water for 30 minutes. Easily rechargeable via its MICRO-USB port, the Stiletto Pro is on the cutting edge of illumination.
November 18, 2019 (Redmond, WA) – The B.E. Meyers & Co. GLARE RECOIL® (PN: 532-R1) green laser hail and warning system has been added to the United States Air Force Small Arms and Light Weapons Accessories List, and is now available to Air Force organizations. The GLARE RECOIL® features patented SmartRange™ laser range finding technology, and near-field detection to immediately identify range-to-target, and automatically outputs a visible green laser at maximum eye-safe power. Its powerful green beam provides visual escalation of force/hail and warning capabilities from 3 meters to beyond 16 kilometers, safely alerting targets and assisting end-users in determining intent.
The United States Marine Corps version of the GLARE RECOIL®, the LA-22/U (NSN 5860-01-657-3893), is currently in production and being delivered by B.E. Meyers & Co., the sole source provider to MARCORSYSCOM for the $49M IDIQ Ocular Interruption System (OIS) program.
Fountain Valley, CA—SureFire, LLC, manufacturer of the world’s finest—and most innovative—illumination tools and tactical products, will be exhibiting at the Military and Police exhibition in Paris, France on 19-22 November 2019 at Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre. Milipol is the leading event dedicated to homeland security, and is organized under the auspices of the French Ministry of Interior in partnership with several governmental bodies. SureFire will be co-exhibiting with Terrang MP-Sec France, so be sure to stop by booth #5J001 to see the latest illumination tools and tactical products from SureFire.
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — “I was so nervous in the morning,” said 2nd Lt. Elena Chavez, shaking her head. “You train for an entire month, so you don’t want to mess it up in the final hours.”
Chavez, an infantry officer from Kansas City, Missouri, assigned to Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, had spent the last four weeks training and testing for her Expert Infantryman Badge.
Now, as she approached the morning’s final two events for 2-2’s EIB testing, it wasn’t just her badge on the line – it was also her perfect score and coveted status as “True Blue.”
“It really had to be right on – everything had to be perfect, the stars had to align,” Chavez said. “It’s the small things that get people on the lanes.”
During the three weeks of train-up, her squad was one of the first out on the lanes and last to leave, drilling through the rain and cold to ensure they had each task down.
It was through working as a squad that Chavez had come so far, a fact she kept in mind going into the final 12-mile road march and weapons disassembly and functions check.
“We’re Buffaloes – we’re a herd and we keep each other accountable,” she said. “I got out there and saw my guys and it was just like any other day when we were training. I lost all my nerves, gained my composure, and it was just another day.”
All those days of training certainly paid off, as Chavez soared through the morning’s final events, earning her EIB and an Army Commendation Medal for clearing all 34 EIB events with a perfect score and achieving “True Blue” status.
Of the 151 infantry Soldiers earning their EIB, only 59 were designated as a “True Blue.” Chavez was one of two female infantry Soldiers to earn the coveted status, along with 1-17 Inf. Reg.’s 2nd Lt. Natalie Bulick-Sullivan.
Sgt. Tracker Sines, Chavez’s squad leader, knew that getting out on the lanes and drilling together would prove instrumental for his young team’s success during testing week.
“I wanted them to train as much as possible, but not burn themselves out,” Sines said. “It’s as simple as going back, going over it again and again. Having your peers watch you, having (your squad leader) watch you, training each other, walking somebody else through the task and reinforcing what you know – that’s a big thing.”
Sines felt confident that Chavez was “True Blue” material after watching her in the weeks leading up to testing.
“She doesn’t waste her time out here,” he said. “She has her own system of talking herself through it. Whatever she needs to do to help learn it.”
2nd Lt. Benjamin Hinkle, Chavez’s squad mate who also earned his EIB, agreed.
“She’s definitely been the workhorse of the group,” Hinkle said. “She arrived straight after NTC, was assigned a platoon, and then came straight here for her EIB.”
Chavez said now that the EIB is done, she looks forward to getting back to her platoon and getting to know them better.
“I’ve learned so much by training and participating, and can take it all back to my Soldiers,” she said.
It might be a bit before she gets the chance, though.
“I’ll be leaving on Wednesday for Yakima Training Center,” she said, shaking her head and laughing. “I’m really going to try to enjoy this weekend.”
The American Knife & Tool Institute Announces the First in a Series of Expert Articles on Intellectual Property and Brand Protection to Help Knife Businesses
Cody, Wyoming (November 14, 2019) – The American Knife & Tool Institute (AKTI) is very pleased to announce that the first in a series of articles to provide a useful toolkit for knife businesses has been published on its website. Authored by two experts in the fields of intellectual property and brand protection, Denise Mosteller and Jeremiah Pastrick, as guest contributors on the nonprofit’s website, the article is titled “Intellectual Property 101.”
Mark Schreiber President CRKT
“We are pleased to share valuable information on intellectual property with our members and the entire sporting knife industry,” said Mark Schreiber, President of CRKT and chair of AKTI’s Anti-Counterfeiting Committee. “Helping our industry thrive and grow is part of our mission as a nonprofit trade association representing the entire knife community.”
“When it comes to the basic types of intellectual property (IP) the ‘Big Three’ include patents, copyrights and trademarks,” said Jeremiah Pastrick, who has served as both vice president of a consulting firm specializing in international intellectual property (IP) development, protection and anti-counterfeiting as well as IP counsel to a wide range of global IP owners. “By and large, each of these forms of IP differ in what they provide protection for, what they don’t provide protection for, how they are created, how they are ‘secured’, and what public policy interest they are meant to serve.”
Denise Mosteller, who has had over 22 years of investigation, brand management and intellectual property experience, explained, “Intellectual property is ‘intangible,’ meaning that all forms of it are recognized as ‘creations of the mind.’ The knife industry is very innovative with different knife designs and mechanisms and makers need to protect those unique aspects to ensure financial success and protect their own individual brands.”
The first “Brand Protection” article on the website “Intellectual Property 101” can be viewed at www.AKTI.org.
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For Frogmen, the battle of Tarawa marks the birth of the UDT and the start of a very long history for Naval Special Warfare. Because the Higgins boats that were taking the Marines to shore got stuck on coral reefs, the Marines would have to jump out in some case far from shore. More Marines drowned or died in the water from enemy fire then killed in the next two days of fighting. So, the Navy came up with the Underwater Demolition Teams to recon landing sights to make sure the Marines could land.
But for the Marines, it was another day in an already long history. The Battle of Tarawa was fought on 20–23 November 1943. It took place at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, in the Pacific Theater of WW2 and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans (forced labor by the japenese), and Americans died in the fighting, mostly on and around the small island of Betio, in the extreme southwest of Tarawa Atoll. The U.S. had similar casualties in previous campaigns, like the six months of the Guadalcanal Campaign, but the losses on Tarawa happened in 76 hours.
The Battle of Tarawa was the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region. It was also the first time in the Pacific War that the United States had faced severe japanese opposition while conducting an amphibious landing. Previous landings met little or no initial resistance. As the Japanese strategy was to let them land and attack after they let their guard down. (but that didn’t work against the USMC). On Tarawa, the 4,500 Japanese defenders were well-supplied and well-prepared, and they fought almost to the last man, exacting a heavy toll. The Japanese said it would take the U.S. “one million men 100 years to take Tarawa.” That is saying a lot for a piece of land that was only 3 miles long and about 800m wide. The Japs had fortified the island with about 500 pillboxes, four eight-inch gun turrets, and numerous artillery and machine-gun emplacements. A coral and log seawall ringed most of the island, and 13mm dual-purpose anti-boat/antiaircraft machine guns protected the beaches.
On the morning of November 20, following a naval bombardment, the first wave of Marines approached Betio’s northern shore in Higgins boats. The men encountered lower tides than expected and were forced to abandon their Higgins Boats on the reef that surrounded Betio and wade hundreds of yards to shore under intense enemy fire. When the Marines reached the Red beach, they struggled to move past the sea walls and establish a secure beachhead. By the end of the day, the Marines held the extreme western tip of the island, as well as a small beachhead in the center of the northern beach. In total, it amounted to less than a quarter of a mile.
There were immediate issues from the start. The naval gunfire stopped at 0900, while the Marines in their Landing Vehicles, Tracked (LVT), were still 4,000 yards offshore. Because of the lower than expected tide, the Higgins boats carrying later waves would not be able to make it over the reefs in the bay. As the Marines approached the shore, they realized the naval bombardment had been rather ineffective. They started taking heavy fire from the Japanese as they made their way across the lagoon.
The first two assault companies, K and L, suffered over 50 percent casualties in the first two hours of the assault. The following waves were in even more trouble. Embarked in Higgins Boats, they had no choice but to unload at the reef due to the low tide. They had to wade ashore over 500 yards under heavy fire.
This was how the men of L company under Major Mike Ryan made it ashore. Rather than leading his men directly into the carnage of Red Beach 1, Ryan followed a lone Marine he had seen breach the seawall at the edge of Red Beach 1 and Green Beach, the designated landing area that comprised the western end of the island. Ryan’s landing point caught the eye of other Marines coming ashore they headed towards Ryan’s position.
As more Marines from successive waves and other survivors worked their way to the west end of the island, Ryan took command and began to form a composite battalion from the troops he had. These men would come to be known as “Ryan’s Orphans.”
On the beach, the Marines of 3/2 continued to fight for their lives. After managing to wrangle two anti-tank guns onto the beach, they realized they were too short to fire over the seawall. As japanese tanks approached their positions, cries went up to “lift them over!” Men raced to get the guns atop the seawall just in time for the gunners to drive off the Japanese tanks. Maj. Ryan’s Orphans and others had acquired a pair of Sherman tanks. Learning as they went, the Marines coordinated assaults on pillboxes with infantry and tank fire. This gave the Marines on Betio their most significant advance of the day as Ryan’s orphans were able to advance 500 meters inland.
3rd Battalion was severely mauled in the initial assault on Betio. Surrounded by strong Japanese fortifications, the survivors on Red Beach 1 would fight for their lives for the remainder of the battle. Ryan’s orphans made a significant contribution to the battle in opening up Green Beach, so men of the 6th Marine Regiment could come ashore to reinforce the battered survivors. Now reformed, 3/2 would take part in one of the final assaults to secure the island, helping to reduce the dedicated Japanese fortification at the confluence of Red Beaches 1 and 2.
By November 23, 1943, after 76 hours of fighting, the battle for Betio was over. More than 1,000 Marines and sailors had been killed, and nearly 2,300 were wounded. Of the roughly 4,800 Japanese defenders, about 97% were thought to have been killed. Only 146 prisoners were captured — all but 17 of the Korean laborers.
Maj Ryan was awarded a Navy Cross. Four Marines would be awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the battle — three of them posthumously.
The military learned vital lessons from the invasion of Tarawa. The organization of amphibious landings was changed, and by D-Day, they would be far more effective. The tactics techniques and procedures of using tanks and infantry together to fight a well-intrenched enemy and other lessons learned would be used for the rest of the war. To this day, the lesson learned on Tarawa is used for a base for all amphibious operations.
The first two assault companies, K and L, suffered over 50 percent casualties in the first two hours of the assault. The following waves were in even more trouble. Embarked in Higgins Boats, they had no choice but to unload at the reef due to the low tide. They had to wade ashore over 500 yards under heavy fire.
